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Pale Riders At The Golden Gate

On the way back from downtown San Francisco the bus stops at the KFC-squared stop at Geary and Sixth Avenue. Kentucky Fried Chicken on the north side and Kaiser French Campus just across from it.…

Mendocino County Today: July 3/4

COMING SOON TO A BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU: “Behind The Green Curtain — True Crime Stories From Mendocino County,” including: • Suro • A Blowtorch For Your Thoughts • Getting Away With Murders • Arf! Arf!…

Why No One Is Celebrating

After all the alarms and dire predictions, on June 26th the State Parks Department announced that all but five state parks have been saved from closure — for the time being. Why, then, is no…

Wine Mob Mau-Mau’s Moorman

The wine people of inland Mendocino County want unimpeded access to the finite waters of the Russian River. Last week this singularly unattractive mob of outback boors pulled off a quiet riot in Judge Ann…

Penn State Or The State Pen?

Mr. Ferris Perviance, III, sixty-ish, wearing a dark suit and brown fedora, sat on a bench on School Street. Perviance Three had the resigned air of a man enduring an unearned insult. He was still…

Off The Record

NORTHCOAST PROGRESSIVE Norman Solomon graciously conceded defeat last week, thus removing whatever interest there might have been in the November election for Congress in the newly gerrymandered California Second District. Solomon came up 172 votes…

Valley People

AT 6:45am Tuesday morning, CalFire called in the terrible news that a fully loaded logging truck had overturned on Flynn Creek Road near Navarro. The driver of the truck was dead and logs had spilled…

Fort Bragg’s Redwood Health Club Closes

The Redwood Health Club, an icon of the greater Mendocino/Fort Bragg area, closed its doors for the last time on Saturday, June 30. Owner Don Pollard had kept the place going through thick and thin…

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